Trapmaker's Snare
Instant
Search your library for a Trap card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Zendikar
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #29282
Trapmaker's Snare tutors any Trap card from your library directly to your hand for a single blue mana — no conditions, no hoops. It's a strict roleplayer: useless outside dedicated Trap builds, indispensable inside them.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Trapmaker's Snare is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it has no meaningful presence outside Commander. In Legacy and Vintage the Trap card pool is too narrow and underpowered to justify a tutor slot, and Modern has never seen a competitive Trap shell worth supporting. Commander is the only format where a dedicated Trap theme can accumulate enough payoffs to make Trapmaker's Snare worth a slot — and even there, it's a build-around piece, not a staple.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Trapmaker's Snare is deep bulk — a negligible pickup if you're building the archetype. Demand is too narrow for the price to move meaningfully in either direction, so there's no urgency and no regret at current market.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.